Welcome to this new lesson! Today’s focus is on the strange world of Korean numbers and counters.

In English, when we count things we simply say ‘1 dog, 2 cats’. In Korean though, there are 3 ways of doing this. The most popular way is by using a counter. If you haven’t learned Japanese or Chinese before learning Korean then counters will be a mystery to you but if you have experience of learning other Asian languages then it won’t be too hard.

Counters are used sometimes in English in sentences like ‘a flock of geese’ or a ‘shoal of fish’ but we don’t have counters for cups or newspapers. We say ‘3 newspapers’ but we do say ‘3 pieces of paper’. In English we are inconsistent but in Korean, there are counters for all objects.

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One response to “Korean Lesson 29: Counters”

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